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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 28. 1927
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1927
WOMAN'S VOICE
women's voice, politically speaking,
will be raised in mass meeting
tonight, and it is hoped that adequate
representation will be present.
Too often in the past, these meetings, men's as well as women's have been attended only by organized groups with an election scheme already doped out, the various stamms supporters merely coming to put over a nomination for someone.
It has been the attitude on the Hill that "there's no use bothering about politics, the little causes will run things anyway."
The unrepresented groups are missing their big opportunity to express themselves, when they neglect to come and participate in the nomination program.
And this attitude will probably continue, unless a great deal of personal interest is shown in politics by those who complain without taking any action.
THE WAR IN CHINA
Elsewhere on this page is reprinted an editorial from the Iola Reporter taking issue with the recent Kannan editorial "Clever, These Chinese."
The Kansan regrets that its editorial conveyed the idea that the war in China was being fought for any other reason than internal difficulties. It is an expressed by the Iola editor, an internal civil war. But that does not explain the motives back of the conflict.
It is striking that during the fifteen years of civil strife in China foreign influence has been most potent in internal affairs. In 1911 we find that the Manchu dynasty, which had been fairly stable, was overthrown because of its inability to check foreign aggression. It pays to pay the unreasonable Boxer indemnities, especially with the imposed customs regulations, made it the pawn of the owers.
Following the revolution headed by Sun Yat-Sen, the powers, by negotiating with Yuan Shih-Ku', the compromise president, instead of the representative Parliament, enabled Yuan to establish an unpopular dictatorship. This, coupled with the financial burden again of the Boxer indemnities, split China and resulted in the crumbling of the central government into several military dictatorships.
Since that time the foreign powers have individually been supporting any one of these dictators which best suited them. China's official, but unpopular entry into the war was occasioned by the promises of the Allied powers to suspend the Boxer indemnities and to readmit the tariff regulations, the latter of which has never been fulfilled. Thus the Boxer indemnity has probably wrought more havoc to stable government in China than any other agency.
The civil war in China today is due to internal difficulties, but these internal difficulties are its international relationship. The Cantonese have been quick to see that foreign influence has been largely responsible for the present china, and it is on this appeal that they are basing their cause. They are fighting for a united China, a China that will be able to obtain the abrogation of all unequal treaties, the
alimitation of extra-territoriality, and the wrestling of customs regulation from foreign control.
They are attempting to obtain this by establishing a stable government which can be held accountable to foreign powers. Yet the anti-foreign feeling that inspires it is so intense that even the discipline of the nationalist leaders was unable to suppress its soldiers at Nanking, especially when the fire was fanned by the presence of foreign gunbots.
If the foreign powers wish to be friends to the Chinese, if they are really interested in a stable government, they can do nothing better than reorganize and arbritate with the Cantonese government. By this they will be hastening the day of a unite China with a responsible government and will be winning, instead of loosing the friendship of the Chinese people.
SPRING'S TRUMPETERS
There is only one certain sign a spring; The hooking of wild green fly northward. Most other signs appear when the sun is shining and there is a breeze flapping up from Dixie, when in other words, we know it in spring without having other signs.
But when we wake in the morning, and it is gray and drifty, with a little chill in the air, when we wake in that sort of day and hear some old gender banking heckle to his flick, we know spring has come for good. It was the tame bird which gave us a common creature for a silly person, for the wild goose is one of the wisest of nature's creatures. He does not start his journey northward until he is sure of spring, and when he is sure no last minute chill can fool him.
We can know spring has come to stay when we hear an old gender's book on a cloudy morning.
THE GREAT GOD BUSINESS
A century and a half of Americanized democracy seems to have convinced Mr. Prosperous Citizen that government is an autonomous affair. He hours of a political state and it relation to the voters, but there are things nearer at hand that are vastly more interesting—automobiles, balloon tires, loud speakers, movie stars social duties, business. Moreover there are things nearer at hand that actually demand attention. He must earn his bread and butter, for in existence, and, incidentally up a snum sum for a rainy day. He must attend his lodge meetings, his chamber of commerce lunches, his Rotary conventions, his Sunday school banquets. He must show his patriotism by accepting the vice president of the Association for the Prevention of the Spread of Atheism and Socialism, and serve as a judge of the monthly Better Babies Contest. He is a director of the Stronghold National bank, and owns a farm on the outskirts of the city. Before he retired at nine each evening he spends two hours reading the local newspaper, the glory stories of the American magazine, and the Saturday Evening Post.
"Politics are the bank," he declares.
"See what such men as Henry Ford and John D. have accomplished without having to dabble in government affairs. By the way, I see that the price of Ford is going to drow, Great man, Ford. We need more of 'em. Of course politics are all right if they act sturdy business men like Cochilege."
Politics? Government! What chance have been caught in the m alestrom of have been caught in the m alestrom of American materialism? Dollar-chasing and joy-hunting have crowded out the inherent interest in political freedom and independence. The body policy is dead, politically, and the corpse stalks feebly about to cast a faint-hearted, 50 per cent vote at election time.
All hall to the great god business!
Though humanity has generally advanced beyond the stage in it, method of thinking in which it personalizes physical objects, it has not yet progressed so far that we are able to separate abstract ideas from the persons who represent them to us. We are turning more and more from the use of physical force as an aid in thinking. Few mature people
PERSONAL DEVILS
Tau Beta Pi will hold an important meeting in Marvie? hall at 9 p. m.
Monday. Every member is expected to attend.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Val. VIII. Monday, March 28, 1927. No. 143
TAU BETA PI;
GEORGE W. TOMLINSON, Secretary.
Vol. VIII Monday, March 28, 1927 No. 145
GRADUATE CLUB:
The Graduate Club meets at 6 p. m. Tuesday, March 29, for a dinner and a short program at the Thimble tea room. Tickets are available on sale in each department of the University, and everyone desired to attend should purchase one before Tuesday.
O. E. MICHEL, President.
ALPHA DELTA SIGMA:
There will be an important meeting of Alpha Delta Sigma Tau chapter evening, March 29, at 7:30, at the Chi Delta Sierra house. All members are urged to be present.
JOHN S. SPARKS, President.
PHI BETA KAPPA
The Council of Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will meet for the election of new members on Tuesday, March 20, at 4:30 p.m. in room 103,
east Administration building. VETA LEAH, Secretary.
BOOK EXCHANGE:
The Student Book Exchange will be open Tuesday, March 29, from 10 to 12 and from 2 to 4.
OLIVIG FIGHTS, Manager.
PL LAMBDA THETA:
Pledging services for Pi Lambau Theba will be held Tuesday, March 29 at 4:30 p.m. at Henley House. TWILA SOHEMAKER, Secretary.
FINAL CALL FOR FACULTY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The Research Committee of the Graduate School makes a final request that the list of all publications by members of the faculty for 1998 be sent to the Research Committee.
today will attempt physical revenge upon the piece of furniture on which they have barked a shin, yet many of it will snoon the relatively innocent official who represents a system we dislike. Nearly all of us make a personal devil to represent an idea or system of ideas we hate.
Is it only jazz times which are becoming standardized because of the radio and the newspaper? Are view-
The Ku Klux Klan hates the theory of the equality of all mankind, and vites its spite on individual negroes, Iowa, and Catolics. The Democrat-dialle high tariffs and hold responsible for them a tariff commission which is the victim of circumstances. Liberals dislike imperialism and biome Secretary Kellogg for pursuing a course set for him by an habitual American way of thinking. Kellogg in turn fears hollyhue and personalizes it in the form of a Mexican president who is trying to free his people from the grip of circumstances.
modern means of communication. But it had in addition a deeper significance; it aroused questions more difficult to answer.
The whole web of hates and fear in this world is woven with a warp of personalized evils on the loom of telegological fate. We hate, and because few of us are able to think in the abstract, our hate of certain ideas falls upon those in whom we personalize the ideas hatred.
Most of us are still in the missile stage of moral development. It is a long way yet to realization of the ideal state of the New Testament, when we sailld love our enemies while hating the ideas for which they stand.
Major Seagrane's mystery car may be fast, but he ought to see some student's fliver trying for a start to go up Fourth Street on high.
IDEAS: PICKLED OR FERMENTED
"A new number" added the New York announcer, after naming the piece to be played by a radio orchestra the other night. The little group about a loud speaker here in Lawson, Kan., smiled for the "new number" has been whistled and hummed around Mt. Orread for weeks.
The obvious superficial comment concerning the incident is clear; it was an unusually concrete illustration of the standalone influence of
Communication as an exchange of ideas brings forth new ideas, and keeps the world in a ferment which, presumably, keeps it proaging. Communication as a broadcasting of ideas, however, tends toward stabilization, toward pickling rather than forment.
points on life becoming standardized
also? Just how much, if any, of such
standardization of viewpoints is so
cloakily desirable?
the question arced by the radio announcer's comment is, briefly, "Do we want our ideas pickled, or fermented, or put through a combination of the two processes?"
"SPRINGTIME IS DIAMOND RING TIME"
Styles in Paris are reported to incl twinkle tints, which, probably, naturally follows the loss of knee lines.
So scribbled the follow in the mos- seet. The instructor droned on in a monotone. The class stared out at the green grass. Couples strolled past the window, arm in arm.
What of it? 5.15, just signs, that the dangerous days are approaching.
Frat prats will find new owners—under the magic of a brand new moon. The old promises, the old phrases, almost wormout through the winter, will take on new life, new meaning. The voice will carry a thrill of sincerity.
Youth will feel a love in warble,
'neath somebody's window. Folks will
marry. They invariably do.
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It's almost crawfish' time. A bent pen, a clunk of fat meat. "Boy, looky what a whopper!" "Can't be pinch though?" "How many you got? I lost count o' mine."
The struggling small-town business man brightens up and quips uplearning about business being rotten. "Maybe crops are going to be good this year," Banks are loosening up with their money, Farmers passin' through towntown with new machinery. Believe I'll lay in a new stock."
"Boy, what a string of beautiful!
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"Yes," says paw, "I believe I'll plant potatoes here and envelopes here and onions here and lettuce here and spring beans here. We'll have a fine garden this year. Course last year the hot weather and the woods kinda mossed things up, but—"
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Editorials From Other Hills
WHAT THE WAR IN CHINA IS
ABOUT.
In a recent editorial in the University Kawai, under the title, "Clever, These Chinese," there appeared the follow-
paragraph:
"The Chinese have at least done what they should inevitably do, namely, revolt against the imperialists and prove that their revolt is going to move a success, and this one does not, another probably will. When it does prove successful, one nation is going to reap the benefits of friendliness."
Doubleshe the writer of this paragraph knows that the war now going on in China is purely a civil war, carried on by Chinese against Chinese. The government of the Kauan are not so well informed and will get the impression that the "nevvolt against the imperialism of the western nations" implies that the Chinese are waging war against foreigners, and that would be unfortunate.
The truth is, of course, that civil war has been raging in China most of the time for the past 15 years. So far as an outsider could discover the fighting was carried on purely as a political aggrandement and political aggrandement on the part of the various leaders until about a year ago when the Koumintang party appeared in the South and began to fight its way northward. This party really seems to have a platform and a strategy, which is based in subheading Chang, of Shantung, Wu Pei Fu, and Feng and Chang Tao Lin, and establishing itself in control of all China, then doubtless it will make demands upon the foreign government to internationality, for control of the concessions and for tariff autonomy.
But the thing students of the Chinese situation should not lose sight of is that these international political considerations do not enter into the present warfare. If these were the controlling factors the war, of course, would have been fought by foreigners. But it is not. Even the Cantonese, most vocal in their publicity department on the question of "freezing China from the oppression of foreign powers," are doing all their fighting against their own people—endowors and warriors central to the country from the two Chang and Wu and Feu.
The big problem in China is not its international relationships but its domestic difficulties. If the Chinese people were at peace among themselves, if there were in Peking a strong and stable government to maintain order throughout the country, able to enforce its own laws, able to insure protection to foreign life and property, then all the problems growing out of international relationships would be easily and quickly solved. The latter is true with interests in China should abide丹 extraterritoriality tomorrow, if all the foreign concessions should be turned over to the Chinese, if all will
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strictions upon duties levied upon goods coming into China were removed, there still would exist war in China, and there still would remain to be solved the problems of universal education, of just and impartial administration of law, of the building of railroads and highways, of the development of railway stations in a word, the work of burgling China, now the most backward of all civilized nations, into line with modern progress.
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